Integrity
defined the office of president of the United States from George Washington
to Thomas Jefferson. Teddy Roosevelt defined honor as did Dwight D.
Eisenhower. Most presidents subscribed to integrity in the past 230
years of our republic. Some did not. Grant, Lyndon Baines Johnson,
Richard Nixon and Clinton displayed personal and moral corruption.

Johnson
fraudulently worked his way into the White House after a life in politics
that should have gotten him a life in prison. He didn’t get caught.
However, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that thrust us into the Vietnam
War, proven to be a lie, allowed Johnson to send 58,000 drafted soldiers
to their deaths and horribly wounded 350,000 others. The Vietnam lie
made a lot of corporate CEOs billions in war production.

Clinton’s
immorality manifested in a ridiculous sex scandal that kept the nation
mesmerized for over a year and kept him from working on the nation’s
business.

But
the greatest fraud early in the 21st century remains the lie of “weapons
of mass destruction” whereby George W. Bush coerced the United States
into a bogus war against a tyrant in a sandbox.

The
evidence shows that Hussein did not possess WMD. United Nations inspectors
could not find WMD. None existed! Hussein couldn’t deliver them even
if he possessed them since he sat on the opposite side of the globe.
He did not take part in 9/11. He did not sponsor training camps for
terrorists. Saddam Hussein proved as impotent against the United States
as a flea crawling up a female camel’s leg with rape on his mind.

Yet,
this month, over 94 American kids have lost their lives and the total
swells to over 2,700 young men and women killed in the miserable sands
of Iraq. To add to that misery, 20,000 young men and women lost their
legs or arms and other injuries after combat. According to a John
Hopkins report, to add even more immorality to this death dance, Bush’s
charade has killed, thus far, 655,000 civilian Iraqi citizens.

Where
has the inhumanity of this onslaught taken us? What has it solved?
When will it end? What is the rationale of so much suffering and death?

How
can Bush pretend that “democracy” works in Iraq with over 50 percent
illiteracy rates, when, in fact, daily horrific violence demonstrates
in-congruency? How can he pretend that 1,600 years of “Sharia Law”
will surrender to our advanced form of democratic governance in such
a backward land? How can Bush justify “staying the course” with so
many of our kids serving when it’s not his daughters serving or being
killed on the front lines of the war?

Bush
said we wouldn’t leave Iraq until we “win.” Does winning mean killing
another 655,000 Iraqi citizens? Does that mean we must bomb Iraq back
into the Stone Age? One of the simplest ways to stop the insanity
would be to split the country into Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites. Otherwise,
once we leave, another Saddam will rise out of the ashes like a phoenix.

What
happened in Vietnam? The truth exposed the lie. How? Combat soldiers
returned home with the truth. Finally, we left while that part of
the world returned to its own ways.

Since
few soldiers enjoy a “voice” in the lie of Iraq, finally, a famous
voice speaks up via his brother. For an expose’ on illusions note
the following statements from Kevin Tillman after the death of his
NFL football playing brother, Pat:

“It
gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined
the military. He spoke about the risks with signing the papers. How
we could be thrown in a direction not of our volition. How fighting
as a soldier would leave us without a voice... until we got out.

“Somehow
we were sent to invade a nation because it was a direct threat to
the American people, or to the world, or harbored terrorists, or was
involved in the September 11 attacks, or received weapons-grade uranium
from Niger, or had mobile weapons labs, or WMD, or had a need to be
liberated, or we needed to establish a democracy, or stop an insurgency,
or stop a civil war we created that can't be called a civil war even
though it is.

“Projection
makes perception. We see only what we project. (Bush’s projections)

“Somehow
America has become a country that projects everything that it is not…
and condemns everything that it is. Or, do we?

“Somehow
our elected leaders were subverting international law and humanity
by setting up secret prisons around the world, secretly kidnapping
people, secretly holding them indefinitely, secretly not charging
them with anything, secretly torturing them. Somehow that overt policy
of torture became the fault of a few "bad apples" in the military.
(Loss of integrity at the highest levels)

“Somehow
back at home, support for the soldiers meant having a five-year-old
kindergartner scribble a picture with crayons and send it overseas,
or slapping stickers on cars, or lobbying Congress for an extra pad
in a helmet. It's interesting that a soldier on his third or fourth
tour should care about a drawing from a five-year-old; or a faded
sticker on a car as his friends die around him; or an extra pad in
a helmet, as if it will protect him when an IED throws his vehicle
50 feet into the air as his body comes apart and his skin melts to
the seat. (War is horrible death and totally insane when you can’t
win, can’t lose, but die for nothing)

“Somehow
the more soldiers that die, the more legitimate the illegal invasion
becomes. (Bush says we must stay the course and we can’t leave until
victory)

“Somehow
American leadership, whose only credit is lying to its people and
illegally invading a nation, has been allowed to steal the courage,
virtue and honor of its soldiers on the ground. (Weapons of mass destruction
fabrication)

“Somehow
those afraid to fight an illegal invasion decades ago are allowed
to send soldiers to die for an illegal invasion they started. (Referring
to Vietnam and Cheney’s five student deferments as well as Bush hiding
out in the National Guard engineered by his father)

“Somehow
profiting from tragedy and horror is tolerated. (Our kids are getting
killed while Halliburton and Blackwater, 21st century Robber Barons,
make a killing on the backs of American taxpayers)

“Somehow
the death of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people is tolerated.
(To date: 655,000 Iraqi citizens killed)

“Somehow
subversion of the Bill of Rights and The Constitution is tolerated.
(Patriot Act)

“Somehow
torture is tolerated. (Bush says you must determine what the meaning
of “torture” is; something he learned from Clinton who didn’t know
what the definition of ‘is’ was)

“Somehow
lying is tolerated. We behave as addicts. (Bush lies about Iraq while
the American public injects itself with the illusion)

“Somehow
reason is being discarded for faith, dogma, and nonsense. (Senate
voted to stay in Iraq against Kerry’s bill and so did the House vote
against Murtha’s bill to leave Iraq)

“Somehow
American leadership managed to create a more dangerous world. (Bush
creates more terrorists seething with hatred as we bomb their region
and 655,000 of their citizens to death)

“Somehow
a narrative is more important than reality. (Bush, like the emperor
wearing no clothes, speaks, with nothing substantive or with reason
after three years of this charade)

“Somehow
the most reasonable, trusted and respected country in the world has
become one of the most irrational, belligerent, feared, and distrusted
countries in the world. (You can fool some all of the time; you can
fool all, some of the time; you can’t fool everyone forever. Bush’s
latest approval rating is 38 percent; 68 percent of Americans want
out of Iraq.)

“Somehow
being politically informed, diligent, and skeptical has been replaced
by apathy through active ignorance. (If they volunteered for the military,
it’s their problem)

“Somehow
the same incompetent, narcissistic, virtue-less, vacuous, malicious
criminals are still in charge of this country. (President, Vice President,
U.S. Senate and House members)

“Somehow
nobody is accountable for this. (No one was fired for allowing 9/11
and no one has been fired for the carnage of three years in Iraq)

“In
a democracy, the policy of the leaders is the policy of the people.
So don't be shocked when our grandkids bury much of this generation
as traitors to the nation, to the world and to humanity. Most likely,
they will come to know that "somehow" was nurtured by fear, insecurity
and indifference, leaving the country vulnerable to unchecked, unchallenged
parasites. (Unrelenting, massive illegal immigration)

“Luckily
this country is still a republic. People still have a voice. People
still can take action. It can start after Pat's birthday November
6th.”

Brother
of Pat Tillman, in Love, former U.S. Army Ranger, Kevin Tillman

I
echo these feelings because my college roommate was drafted into the
military and killed in Vietnam. Phil was like my brother and best
friend. He died for nothing in another contrived war. Every time I
go to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC, I run my hands over
his name carved in granite. I weep uncontrollably. His was a life
unlived. Jefferson said, “…men are endowed with certain inalienable
rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
With Vietnam and Iraq, we suffer a disconnect.

While
Bush deceives, I witnessed the truth at the border from Texas to California.
Our southern border remains open to a plethora of terrorists, drug
smugglers, killers, child molesters, transport of WMD, diseases and
criminals. So much for the illusion of America’s security from terrorism.

What
does it take for a president and Congress to address American citizens’
needs? How about the fact that the average American credit card suffers
a $9,240.00 balance? Let’s tackle the $8.4 trillion debt! What about
the $700 billion annual trade debt? How about three million outsourced
jobs leaving our middle class standing in unemployment lines? Instead
of the $300 billion spent to blow up and rebuild Iraq, we could have
spent $300 billion to rebuild our ghettoes, upgrade our schools, pave
our highways, put our citizens to work, halt drug smuggling and crime
within our country. Let Iraq take care of Iraq.

Again,
we let old men lie us into wars where we don’t belong; we follow them
blindly; we offer our children up for death; we suffer from corporate
power and greed along with political insanity. Because of our silence—the
Iraq War continues—and our nation degrades toward an uncertain future.
Unless!

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we join in a higher vision of integrity; a return to a noble stance
in line with the honor of the U.S. Constitution; to the genius of
our founding fathers in their time and you in your time, whereby the
common man activates the equation; to the power of your spirituality,
however you define it, and your subsequent actions that create benefit
for all humanity.

What
you can do to change America for the better:

To
stop illegal aliens in your community, you may follow the course of
action by Mayor Louis Barletta of Hazelton, PA. He offers a bomb proof
ordinance that takes business licenses away from those who hire illegals.
He legally halts landlords from renting to illegals. Without work
and without housing, illegals cannot stay in your community. Check
out his web site for instructions: SmallTownDefenders.com

Wooldridge
presents a 45 minute program to colleges, high schools, civic clubs,
church groups and political clubs across America titled: “COMING POPULATION
CRISIS IN AMERICA: WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.” Go to his website for
further information on booking the program. www.frostywooldridge.com

Frosty
Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and families
in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000 miles, on six continents
and six times across the United States in the past 30 years. His published
books include: "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS" ; “STRIKE THREE! TAKE
YOUR BASE”; “IMMIGRATION’S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES”; “MOTORCYCLE
ADVENTURE TO ALASKA: INTO THE WIND—A TEEN NOVEL”; “BICYCLING AROUND THE
WORLD: TIRE TRACKS FOR YOUR IMAGINATION”; “AN EXTREME ENCOUNTER: ANTARCTIA.”
His next book: “TILTING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY INTO A SWAMP.” He lives
in Denver, Colorado.